Yes, and the one several years later with Wogan where the audience is far less ready fo laugh at him and Wogan is made to look a bit of a heel. He claimed fo be a son of the Godhead in the initial interview. Theres a further interview with Gay Byrne ln the Late Late Show in Ireland a few weeks later where he expands on what he means by it. He states nobody is special and that its not a 'messiah' type thing he is claiming
But he also repeatedly compares himself to Jesus Christ - like when he says how it was slowly revealed to Jesus that he was the son of God.
He does, yeah. My point I suppose was that he clarifies a lot in subsequent interviews, but its this Wogan Interview that is usually referenced.
His general description of the relationship of the individual to the Creator and of Jesus Christ to the Creator is quite similar to the gnostic tradition, which is why I probably have a soft spot for him without necessarily following his worldview, or parts thereof.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
I love Lenny, used to see him in Nostalgia and Comics in the early eighties reading the DC comics.
He used to be fab before reinventing himself as a race grifter
Tell him to GFH
I enjoyed him in Not the Nine O’Clock News.
Three of a kind? He wasn't in NTNON
Tiswas! Back before political correctness stopped Lenny Henry playing White characters like David Bellamy.
He was also a very good actor later on.
He does a loads of ads now particularly for Premier Inn so he doesn't really need any other work.
I had an uncomfortable moment with him a few years ago. I was with three clients having lunch at Grouchos and Henry was having lunch with Dawn French at another table. The female client wanted his autograph for her son so when the waiter came to our order she asked if he would mind asking him for an autograph?
The waiter said he was sorry but it was strictly forbidden for anyone to ask for autographs in the club.
She decided she would just go and chance it and ask him herself. She walked over and he said in an ever rising voice. "No you can't. NO NO NO NO. Just Go away......"
I can't think I've had a more embarrassing lunch anywhere. Ever! I thought I was going to be blackballed! (Though he was right and their privacy rules are well known)
I had a similarly uncomfortable evening there where somone insisted on telling me how the COVID vaccine was an international mind control conspiracy. Thankfully I managed to palm her off to George Osborne who also happened to be there.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
I love Lenny, used to see him in Nostalgia and Comics in the early eighties reading the DC comics.
He used to be fab before reinventing himself as a race grifter
Tell him to GFH
I enjoyed him in Not the Nine O’Clock News.
Three of a kind? He wasn't in NTNON
Tiswas! Back before political correctness stopped Lenny Henry playing White characters like David Bellamy.
He was also a very good actor later on.
He does a loads of ads now particularly for Premier Inn so he doesn't really need any other work.
I had an uncomfortable moment with him a few years ago. I was with three clients having lunch at Grouchos and Henry was having lunch with Dawn French at another table. The female client wanted his autograph for her son so when the waiter came to our order she asked if he would mind asking him for an autograph?
The waiter said he was sorry but it was strictly forbidden for anyone to ask for autographs in the club.
She decided she would just go and chance it and ask him herself. She walked over and he said in an ever rising voice. "No you can't. NO NO NO NO. Just Go away......"
I can't think I've had a more embarrassing lunch anywhere. Ever! I thought I was going to be blackballed! (Though he was right and their privacy rules are well known)
I had a similarly uncomfortable evening there where somone insisted on telling me how the COVID vaccine was an international mind control conspiracy. Thankfully I managed to palm her off to George Osborne who also happened to be there.
OMG were we at the same Robey Warshaw dinner party?
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
Is it what we used to call simultaneous integration? You had two integration problems with two unknowns you could only resolve by doing both integrations in parallel.
Or something like that. It was over 40 years ago ffs
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought one of the cute book reading ghosts that light up. 👻
Steady on. Kemi's massive tax cut hasn't happened yet.
(Even if it is a good policy, which I suspect it isn't, why announce it now? Osborne's IHT announcement made sense, because it stopped the Brownites planning an early election. Not even Starmer is out-of-touch enough to be doing the same. Still, I'm sure Mel Stride is totally fine with the announcement. Totally fine.)
On the shadowy table that’s the £50 bottle of Monterey Pinot and the £100 pair of Nocs binoculars that was waiting in my goodie bag. Not that I’m vulgarly exulting or anything. Did I mention I love my job?
Also a can of water for sociological interest
Sea otter for scale (there actually is one in the picture but he’s about half a mile away)
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
That's the point. It's part of Kemi's "Univerzzzity sux" meme. I didn't/don't understand it, so it's obviously stupid/unnecessary.
(It's probably less true than she realises. I'm suddenly teaching a whole pile of stuff that I haven't really thought about since I did materials science options in my degree thirty years ago. Yes, I'm having to check details and updates, but it's like an overgrown pathway- you have to clear away the rubbish, but the learning is still there. Quite fun, actually.
Of course, the other possibility is that Kemi was rubbish at learning.)
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
Is it what we used to call simultaneous integration? You had two integration problems with two unknowns you could only resolve by doing both integrations in parallel.
Or something like that. It was over 40 years ago ffs
Maybe, haven’t heard of that either tbh
Always trying to learn something new if I see a term I haven’t heard before it esp around computing or maths
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
Is it what we used to call simultaneous integration? You had two integration problems with two unknowns you could only resolve by doing both integrations in parallel.
Or something like that. It was over 40 years ago ffs
∫∫B.dA = 0 kind of thing?
No, I think she was referring to a numerical method in computing.
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought one of the cute book reading ghosts that light up. 👻
Steady on. Kemi's massive tax cut hasn't happened yet.
(Even if it is a good policy, which I suspect it isn't, why announce it now? Osborne's IHT announcement made sense, because it stopped the Brownites planning an early election. Not even Starmer is out-of-touch enough to be doing the same. Still, I'm sure Mel Stride is totally fine with the announcement. Totally fine.)
She needs to shift the dial.
If she’s able to demonstrate some moderate improvement in the polls in time for May, she might, if she’s a bit lucky, be able to buy herself some more time.
Personally I’m starting to think they’re better off giving her at least another year. I’m far from convinced anyone else would be doing any better right now.
Considering how split we think the USA is, here's some polling that shows remarkable cross-party support for Ukraine:
72% of Dems and 73% of Reps support arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia; 71% of Dems and 86% of Reps support additional economic sanctions against Russia;
Kemi gets her first post speech defector - Scott Lee an indy in Northumberland since 2021 for Cramlington East has joined the Tory group running Northumberland CC
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought one of the cute book reading ghosts that light up. 👻
Steady on. Kemi's massive tax cut hasn't happened yet.
(Even if it is a good policy, which I suspect it isn't, why announce it now? Osborne's IHT announcement made sense, because it stopped the Brownites planning an early election. Not even Starmer is out-of-touch enough to be doing the same. Still, I'm sure Mel Stride is totally fine with the announcement. Totally fine.)
She needs to shift the dial.
If she’s able to demonstrate some moderate improvement in the polls in time for May, she might, if she’s a bit lucky, be able to buy herself some more time.
Personally I’m starting to think they’re better off giving her at least another year. I’m far from convinced anyone else would be doing any better right now.
That might be the headline conclusion from the conference season. Neither Starmer nor Badenoch are that good (opinions vary on who is worse), but the touted replacements (Burnham and Jenirck) have shown how much worse they would be.
I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought one of the cute book reading ghosts that light up. 👻
Steady on. Kemi's massive tax cut hasn't happened yet.
(Even if it is a good policy, which I suspect it isn't, why announce it now? Osborne's IHT announcement made sense, because it stopped the Brownites planning an early election. Not even Starmer is out-of-touch enough to be doing the same. Still, I'm sure Mel Stride is totally fine with the announcement. Totally fine.)
She needs to shift the dial.
If she’s able to demonstrate some moderate improvement in the polls in time for May, she might, if she’s a bit lucky, be able to buy herself some more time.
Personally I’m starting to think they’re better off giving her at least another year. I’m far from convinced anyone else would be doing any better right now.
That might be the headline conclusion from the conference season. Neither Starmer nor Badenoch are that good (opinions vary on who is worse), but the touted replacements (Burnham and Jenirck) have shown how much worse they would be.
And so we roll on.
I think it's best to have Kemi, then someone who could do ok in the election. The Tories have had too many leaders recently, and don't need three in one parliament in opposition.
Anyone taking over now would have to worry they'd be gone before 2029.
I’ve gone and done it. I’ve bought one of the cute book reading ghosts that light up. 👻
Steady on. Kemi's massive tax cut hasn't happened yet.
(Even if it is a good policy, which I suspect it isn't, why announce it now? Osborne's IHT announcement made sense, because it stopped the Brownites planning an early election. Not even Starmer is out-of-touch enough to be doing the same. Still, I'm sure Mel Stride is totally fine with the announcement. Totally fine.)
She needs to shift the dial.
If she’s able to demonstrate some moderate improvement in the polls in time for May, she might, if she’s a bit lucky, be able to buy herself some more time.
Personally I’m starting to think they’re better off giving her at least another year. I’m far from convinced anyone else would be doing any better right now.
That might be the headline conclusion from the conference season. Neither Starmer nor Badenoch are that good (opinions vary on who is worse), but the touted replacements (Burnham and Jenirck) have shown how much worse they would be.
And so we roll on.
I think it's best to have Kemi, then someone who could do ok in the election. The Tories have had too many leaders recently, and don't need three in one parliament in opposition.
Anyone taking over now would have to worry they'd be gone before 2029.
Switching a leader once isn’t even without risk. It could make them look faintly ridiculous again - be a pretty good attack line for other parties at a GE that you’re never sure who you’re going to get as PM.
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
(thinks about answering this question, realises I can't remember how to do it either and gives up. Or she may have meant "partial integration", where you integrate it one variable at a time. I think. Or she may have meant "parallel programming", in which case yes I could do it a quarter of a century ago but not now)
As you may know, AI slop and YouTube algorithms are killing YouTube channels, to the extent it's become it's own genre. Here is Kurzgesagt pointing this out
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Sources in the region are telling me they are ‘cautiously optimistic’ that a Gaza ceasefire deal is on its way and an initial statement may even come at some point this evening.
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
(thinks about answering this question, realises I can't remember how to do it either and gives up. Or she may have meant "partial integration", where you integrate it one variable at a time. I think. Or she may have meant "parallel programming", in which case yes I could do it a quarter of a century ago but not now)
I think she meant parallel numerical integration as in:
"Like Monte Carlo simulation, numerical integration is pleasingly parallel."
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
(thinks about answering this question, realises I can't remember how to do it either and gives up. Or she may have meant "partial integration", where you integrate it one variable at a time. I think. Or she may have meant "parallel programming", in which case yes I could do it a quarter of a century ago but not now)
An oddity of the speech at that point was she used this as an illustration of how good apprenticeships are saying she can still remember how to fix a computer after her apprenticeship but has forgotten the engineering degree stuff like "parallel integration".
Begs the question why she went on to a degree if apprenticeships are so great.
Also, first i had heard about her doing an apprenticeship.
I love Lenny, used to see him in Nostalgia and Comics in the early eighties reading the DC comics.
He used to be fab before reinventing himself as a race grifter
Tell him to GFH
I enjoyed him in Not the Nine O’Clock News.
Three of a kind? He wasn't in NTNON
Tiswas! Back before political correctness stopped Lenny Henry playing White characters like David Bellamy.
He was also a very good actor later on.
He does a loads of ads now particularly for Premier Inn so he doesn't really need any other work.
I had an uncomfortable moment with him a few years ago. I was with three clients having lunch at Grouchos and Henry was having lunch with Dawn French at another table. The female client wanted his autograph for her son so when the waiter came to our order she asked if he would mind asking him for an autograph?
The waiter said he was sorry but it was strictly forbidden for anyone to ask for autographs in the club.
She decided she would just go and chance it and ask him herself. She walked over and he said in an ever rising voice. "No you can't. NO NO NO NO. Just Go away......"
I can't think I've had a more embarrassing lunch anywhere. Ever! I thought I was going to be blackballed! (Though he was right and their privacy rules are well known)
I had a similarly uncomfortable evening there where somone insisted on telling me how the COVID vaccine was an international mind control conspiracy. Thankfully I managed to palm her off to George Osborne who also happened to be there.
OMG were we at the same Robey Warshaw dinner party?
I think it was a member's drinks but it's entirely possible that I crashed the wrong party.
As you may know, AI slop and YouTube algorithms are killing YouTube channels, to the extent it's become it's own genre. Here is Kurzgesagt pointing this out
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
(thinks about answering this question, realises I can't remember how to do it either and gives up. Or she may have meant "partial integration", where you integrate it one variable at a time. I think. Or she may have meant "parallel programming", in which case yes I could do it a quarter of a century ago but not now)
Isn't parallel integration still common? It's very much a thing in my sci/eng neck of the woods.
Thank God: I thought you were telling us he was dead.
Isn’t that the point of a game of werewolf? The whole point of this show and its ratings is a plot to kill Stephen Fry?
I for one hope they succeed. I’m rooting for Lucy.
They are bound to make Niko a traitor.
In V for Vendetta, Stephen Fry was executed for possessing an antique copy of the Koran.
Natalie Portman is also bald. Its a silly film.
Oh any film where Stephen Fry gets executed is ok with me.
Why do you hate the national treasure that is Stephen Fry?
He loves his cricket for starters.
I was listening to his old R4 show "Delve Special" recently. Still very good. The TV version wasn't so good as I remember - but the radio show still works.
“ I can’t remember how to do parallel integration”
Does anyone know what “parallel integration” is? From context I assume it’s a term from their “Computer Systems Engineering” degree started 2003
I can’t find anything relevant on google and my tech knowledge from that era is pretty good
(thinks about answering this question, realises I can't remember how to do it either and gives up. Or she may have meant "partial integration", where you integrate it one variable at a time. I think. Or she may have meant "parallel programming", in which case yes I could do it a quarter of a century ago but not now)
An oddity of the speech at that point was she used this as an illustration of how good apprenticeships are saying she can still remember how to fix a computer after her apprenticeship but has forgotten the engineering degree stuff like "parallel integration".
Begs the question why she went on to a degree if apprenticeships are so great.
Also, first i had heard about her doing an apprenticeship.
An apprenticeship can be the first step on the ladder; in ye olden days some large companies would encourage bright young lads who had no degree to do one (*). Alternatively, an apprenticeship might encourage a bright young kid that university might be for them.
Or it could have been a degree apprenticeship, where the apprenticeship directly leads to a degree.
I've no idea which, if any, of these apply to Badenoch.
(*) There's an anecdote that during WW2, Rolls Royce in Derby got Oxford to grant a young lad they wanted to keep a degree to stop him getting drafted. The lad had never even been to Oxford. No idea about the veracity of the story but it was the way RR apparently did things back in the day.
Longer words aren't always cleverer than shorter ones
Myself instead of I or me being an obvious example
In one episode of Poirot, a character saying "fictitional" instead of "fictional" is how we find out he's a bounder.
My favourite Agatha Christie "this is how you know he's a wrong'un" line was "It was his affectation to wear loosely cut country tweeds in his city office."
I don't know the area well, but I'd guess, if you could choose the time and the route carefully, you could stroll around for ninety minutes, and never see a single Tory.
I just watched it. Was certainly well-delivered and she seemed entirely at ease: a good sign as temperament is incredibly important in a role like that.
I keep going backwards and forwards with Kemi. She has become leader too early, perhaps fatally so, like Hague. And yet, the talent is there, and maybe a sprinkling of stardust. But the ogre of May 2026 lies in wait. I wish her luck as she could well be a good thing.
I don't know the area well, but I'd guess, if you could choose the time and the route carefully, you could stroll around for ninety minutes, and never see a single Tory.
I don't know the area well, but I'd guess, if you could choose the time and the route carefully, you could stroll around for ninety minutes, and never see a single Tory.
I will need a similar amount for how the British Empire treated my antecedents in British India.
Introduced railways, common law, Westminster style democracy and stopped widows being thrown on funeral pyres?
Also the Bengal famine and the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which were two crimes against humanity.
If Wolmar's Railways of the Raj is anything to go by, the investors weren't doing their building and operating with a view solely to the benefit of the Indian population.
Trump now saying that left wing violence is "an epidemic".
Isn't the MAGA wisdom therefore that the government should ignore it, because people should be free to choose and it will only take out the weaker members of the herd anyway?
I just watched it. Was certainly well-delivered and she seemed entirely at ease: a good sign as temperament is incredibly important in a role like that.
I keep going backwards and forwards with Kemi. She has become leader too early, perhaps fatally so, like Hague. And yet, the talent is there, and maybe a sprinkling of stardust. But the ogre of May 2026 lies in wait. I wish her luck as she could well be a good thing.
Given that it seems the alternative is Rob Jenrick and his toytown Stephen Miller act then perhaps we should all be rooting for Kemi?
I don't know the area well, but I'd guess, if you could choose the time and the route carefully, you could stroll around for ninety minutes, and never see a single Tory.
I won't allow any criticism of the great city of Birmingham on this website.
A quick check of Handsworth on Wikipedia tells us Joan Armatrading was born there.
I went for school concerts as a child, because I had relatives at the Grammar schools there. They didn't let sixth formers out at lunchtime, as they did at the grammar schools in leafier parts of the city. But there was no security required for bus stops. I think there are plenty worse parts of Birmingham, crime-wise.
Trump now saying that left wing violence is "an epidemic".
Isn't the MAGA wisdom therefore that the government should ignore it, because people should be free to choose and it will only take out the weaker members of the herd anyway?
Well, they're certainly not gonna vaccinate their way out of it.
Considering how split we think the USA is, here's some polling that shows remarkable cross-party support for Ukraine:
72% of Dems and 73% of Reps support arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia; 71% of Dems and 86% of Reps support additional economic sanctions against Russia;
Aaron Rupar @atrupar · 18m Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Coronated is a fine addition to the English language, math is a declaration of war.
Coronated is fine for shells (conchology) and some architecture
It's not a good word for having had a crown put on someone
It works, the language of Shakespeare is strong enough to cope with this evolution.
Coronated is four syllables. It works much harder than crowned
We do use coronation rather than crowning.
I would argue crowned and coronated have slightly different meanings. Crowned means someone who has been made king usually with an emphasis on the role and eligibility; coronated means someone who has gone through the ceremony and process of coronation. Of course a coronation is what makes you a king so it comes to the same thing.
Trump called this morning for the jailing of Chicago's mayor Johnson and Gov. Pritzker. Comes hours after he federalized Texas national guard to go into Illinois against Johnson and Pritzker's will. https://x.com/samstein/status/1975899881806905429
Troubled ONS reveals £2bn borrowing blunder HMRC error will boost Rachel Reeves’s hopes of boosting headroom in November Budget [sic] ... The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had been informed by the taxman of an error in data supplied by HMRC that meant cash receipts raised from the sales tax between April and August this year were £2.4bn higher than previously thought.
Coronated is a fine addition to the English language, math is a declaration of war.
Coronated is fine for shells (conchology) and some architecture
It's not a good word for having had a crown put on someone
It works, the language of Shakespeare is strong enough to cope with this evolution.
Coronated is four syllables. It works much harder than crowned
We do use coronation rather than crowning.
I would argue crowned and coronated have slightly different meanings. Crowned means someone who has been made king usually with an emphasis on the role and eligibility; coronated means someone who has gone through the ceremony and process of coronation. Of course a coronation is what makes you a king so it comes to the same thing.
Don't think so, surely. KCIII became king instantly by a sort of divine right osmosis, apparently, but didn't become coronate till his coronation.
I just found out my favourite Indian restaurant is currently battling a noise complaint from someone who has just bought the flat above. An unlicensed family place with no music. This is not the first time one of my fave spots has had to deal with something like this.
If I work out who it is there will certainly be some noise. Anyway, my point is that getting our pubs and restaurants buzzing is something we should welcome, particularly as it's part of the economy not under threat from AI. Ditching NIMBY regulation and welcoming such a buzz is really important for this sector.
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Myself instead of I or me being an obvious example
I will leave it up to you.
Or something like that. It was over 40 years ago ffs
(Even if it is a good policy, which I suspect it isn't, why announce it now? Osborne's IHT announcement made sense, because it stopped the Brownites planning an early election. Not even Starmer is out-of-touch enough to be doing the same. Still, I'm sure Mel Stride is totally fine with the announcement. Totally fine.)
Lecornu now suggesting there’s no majority in the assembly for fresh elections so Macron could nominate a new PM.
Problem is there’s not a majority for anything else either….
(It's probably less true than she realises. I'm suddenly teaching a whole pile of stuff that I haven't really thought about since I did materials science options in my degree thirty years ago. Yes, I'm having to check details and updates, but it's like an overgrown pathway- you have to clear away the rubbish, but the learning is still there. Quite fun, actually.
Of course, the other possibility is that Kemi was rubbish at learning.)
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CCHQ seem to have failed to renew the contract with the designer responsible.
Always trying to learn something new if I see a term I haven’t heard before it esp around computing or maths
He loves his cricket for starters.
No, I think she was referring to a numerical method in computing.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-14491689/james-mcalpine-racing-day-event.html
I still think Boris for the LOLs made Simon Clarke Chief Sec for that very reason.
If she’s able to demonstrate some moderate improvement in the polls in time for May, she might, if she’s a bit lucky, be able to buy herself some more time.
Personally I’m starting to think they’re better off giving her at least another year. I’m far from convinced anyone else would be doing any better right now.
72% of Dems and 73% of Reps support arming Ukraine and sanctioning Russia;
71% of Dems and 86% of Reps support additional economic sanctions against Russia;
https://x.com/OstapYarysh/status/1975958147266126289
5% of yesterday's losses reversed lol
Wedding/marrying
And so we roll on.
And much better than "myself, myself and myself"
Anyone taking over now would have to worry they'd be gone before 2029.
And Trump is doing some dodgy shit as well
A colleague said I have Donald Trump like subtlety.
https://youtu.be/jdtKT5q-CW8
I love De La Soul
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0 "AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel" 13 mins
🚨BREAKING🚨
Sources in the region are telling me they are ‘cautiously optimistic’ that a Gaza ceasefire deal is on its way and an initial statement may even come at some point this evening.
https://x.com/SkyYaldaHakim/status/1976006050823405796
"Like Monte Carlo simulation, numerical integration is pleasingly parallel."
https://homepages.math.uic.edu/~jan/mcs572f16/mcs572notes/lec13.html
Nuptials/Marrying
Or people can just not use a shithouse nonsense like 'coronate'
Begs the question why she went on to a degree if apprenticeships are so great.
Also, first i had heard about her doing an apprenticeship.
But they have to take the medecine.
How long before the public look at them again seriously? Two years? Four years? A decade? Never?
No one knows to be honest.
Then realised how easy it was to script and automate 'AI Slop is killing $platform' content and felt sad.
TRUMP says he might head to Middle East this weekend. Final negotiation with Hamas "seems to be going well" on Gaza.
Or it could have been a degree apprenticeship, where the apprenticeship directly leads to a degree.
https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/degree-apprenticeships-how-you-could-get-a-degree-for-free/
I've no idea which, if any, of these apply to Badenoch.
(*) There's an anecdote that during WW2, Rolls Royce in Derby got Oxford to grant a young lad they wanted to keep a degree to stop him getting drafted. The lad had never even been to Oxford. No idea about the veracity of the story but it was the way RR apparently did things back in the day.
https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-03/TWP2015-01.pdf
TL:DR transaction taxes on property sales are really bad, but regular property taxes are really good.
Mervyn Carter
@Mervyn_Carter
Let's look on the bright side for #Handsworth.
I don't know the area well, but I'd guess, if you could choose the time and the route carefully, you could stroll around for ninety minutes, and never see a single Tory.
https://x.com/Mervyn_Carter/status/1976011371625185440
I keep going backwards and forwards with Kemi. She has become leader too early, perhaps fatally so, like Hague. And yet, the talent is there, and maybe a sprinkling of stardust. But the ogre of May 2026 lies in wait. I wish her luck as she could well be a good thing.
I went for school concerts as a child, because I had relatives at the Grammar schools there. They didn't let sixth formers out at lunchtime, as they did at the grammar schools in leafier parts of the city. But there was no security required for bus stops. I think there are plenty worse parts of Birmingham, crime-wise.
Why did Trump get the GOP to halt all aid for six months, though ? And why did they just play along ?
Kemi Badenoch delivered the best speech, rolled out an array of policies, and stamp duty the 'rabbit out of the hat'
She energised her supporters and have given them something to sell on the doorstep
And she did what I prayed she would, sent out a positive [conservative] message and barely mentioned Starmer or Farage
Labour and Farage fell into the trap of hurling insults at each other to the detriment of both
The added bonus is Jenrick is the biggest loser
I do not know how the polls will react, but today was a start on the long road to relevance
@atrupar
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Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1976020480831168791
Pffft.
Pubs to stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/08/pub-opening-hours-in-england-and-wales-could-be-extended
https://x.com/samstein/status/1975899881806905429
This is .... not normal, even for the shithead.
If I work out who it is there will certainly be some noise. Anyway, my point is that getting our pubs and restaurants buzzing is something we should welcome, particularly as it's part of the economy not under threat from AI. Ditching NIMBY regulation and welcoming such a buzz is really important for this sector.
Skip to pages 53/54 for the pretty graphs. The suggestion is that it really isn't close.
Reflects quite well on Kemi for picking the right tax to dump first even if it isn't an immediately obvious one.
Meanwhile redwallers are targeted for benefit cuts. Workshy, scroungers, layabouts.